Nino Baliardo & Gipsy Dynasty: Picasso

At the age of nine, Bruno ‘Niño' Baliardo recorded an album under the name Niño el Suerte that particularly impressed Pablo Picasso; this album is dedicated to the artist, who was a family friend. Baliardo went on to appear internationally as the opening act in concerts of Gypsy music by his uncle, Manitas. In the early 1980s, Baliardo founded the Gipsy Kings with cousin Nicolas Reyes. Baliardo is one of the last great specialists of the traditional Spanish cante jondo or "deep song," an intensely dramatic style of Andalusian flamenco singing that requires a profound sensibility and great expressive capacities.